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Features 2008

WWF-UK's Ambassador of Change meets Hilary Benn
WWF-UK's Ambassador of Change, Casper ter Kuile meets the Secretary of State for the Environment, Hilary Benn, to tell him about his experience with WWF's Voyage for the Future programme.
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WWF TV channel launched
The launch of a dedicated WWF TV channel will make campaigning videos of the world's leading independent environmental organisation even more accessible to a worldwide audience.
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WWF Photography competition
Have you captured a British species or a habitat for posterity? We're looking for inspiring images from the UK to help us choose our WWF photographer of the year.
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Panda © Roger Hooper
London photo exhibition highlights wildlife in peril
WWF-UK supporter and environmental photographer, Roger Hooper is showing his latest work, Endangered Wildlife Exposed, at the Oxo Gallery in London from 13 June to 6 July.
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Ambassador of change - Emma and Casper (c) WWF-UK
Voyage for the future
Read the blogs of two UK students, who are taking part in WWF's Voyage for the Future - a 10-day boat trip around the Arctic during which students from around the world witness the impacts of climate change first-hand.
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© Mike GRIFFITHS / WWF-Canon
World's rarest rhinos make dramatic video appearance
WWF-designed video cameras, installed to capture wildlife footage in the jungles of South-east Asia, have twice recorded remarkable images of the world's rarest rhino accompanied by a calf.
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(c) 2008 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All rights reserved
The 11th Hour
The 11th Hour is an inspiring feature-length documentary in which dozens of experts outline the many threats to the environment and offer solutions on how to tackle them.
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WWF shows case for airport expansion is groundless
The case for expanding UK airports often centres on claims that the volume of business flights is set to increase. Yet WWF-UK's latest research shows that top UK businesses expect to fly less in the future.
Read the report and watch our video »

Aerial view of the Amazon River in the Loreto region of Peru
Discover Peru's fragile environment
In June 2007, award-winning photographer, Brent Stirton, and WWF-UK photographic manager, Greg Armfield, travelled to Peru, a country facing huge environmental challenges that WWF is working to address.
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©Benjamin Ealovega / WWF-UK
Sustainable homes: not just DIY
The UK's poorly insulated, energy inefficient housing stock could be easily transformed into cheaper to run, low carbon homes by the end of the next decade.
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Amur leopard
Biodiversity plummets as resource use soars
WWF welcomes the long overdue recognition of global species and biological (biodiversity) loss as a key development issue, in a major economic report.
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Signpost © iStockphoto
Driving behavioural change
A major new WWF report asks whether the current dominant strategies for addressing environmental challenges are up to the job in hand.
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Cyclist © Jiri Rezac / WWF-UK
Residents of UK cities ranked in eco-debt index
Over the next month the residents of every city in Britain will plunge into ecological debt having consumed their fair share of resources for this year. But it doesn't have to be that way.
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Fishing boat at sea surrounded by seagulls © WWF-Canon / Hartmut JUNGIUS
Marine Bill needed for all of UK
The draft Marine Bill published today by the Government includes encouraging measures to protect our marine environment, but its effectiveness will be limited unless it is implemented throughout the UK.
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Bali 2007 Climate change conference © Naoyuki Yamagishi / WWF
Back from Bali: The 2007 UN climate change conference
In this film Keith Allott, Head of Climate Change at WWF-UK and Kit Vaughan, Climate Change Adaptation Adviser at WWF-UK talk about how climate change is already impacting on vulnerable people, ecosystems and species.
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Sumatran elephant © WWF-Canon / Volker KESS
Sumatra's forests at risk
Turning the forests and peat swamps of just one Sumatran province into pulpwood and palm oil plantations is generating more annual greenhouse gas emissions than the Netherlands and is rapidly driving the province's elephants into extinction.
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Rural England © Brent Stirton / Getty Images / WWF-UK
Climate change threat to England
Conservation organisations warn in a new booklet released today that the face of the South East of England could change forever within 50 years if opportunities to lessen the impacts of climate change are not taken now.
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Alistair McGowan
Interview with WWF ambassador Alistair McGowan
In his role as WWF ambassador Alistair McGowan campaigns for the major passion in his life – the environment.
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Arctic tale
Majestic polar bears in new film
Polar bears have long been a focus of WWF's on-the-ground research and conservation projects in the Arctic. Arctic Tale is a new documentary film that follows the lives of a polar bear, a walrus and their respective young.
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Sumatran tiger © WWF / Frédy MERCAY
Sumatran tigers being sold into extinction
Wildlife trade monitoring network, TRAFFIC have released a survey today warning that laws protecting the critically endangered Sumatran tiger have failed to prevent tiger body parts being offered on open sale in Indonesia.
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Fishing: Mafia Island © E Parker / WWF-UK
WWF in Tanzania: reefs, banks and pearls
The Tanzanian president, Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete has praised WWF's coastal resources management and sustainable livelihoods programmes in the country, during his official visit to fishing villages in Kilwa.
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David Nussbaum © WWF-UK
Interview with David Nussbaum
WWF-UK's Chief Executive, looks back on some of our achievements in 2007… and delivers a personal message of thanks to you.
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WWF in top five of prestigious Sky competition
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BBC Earth - see the film
The BBC's most ambitious film project
Earth is a natural history film based on the BBC series Planet Earth. More»


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